Introduction
1. The Rise of the Agents in the late Imamate (830-874 CE)
2. The Crisis before the Crisis: The Feud between Imamic Contenders and the Power of the Agents
3. Crisis! The Mother, the Brother, the Concubine and the Politics of Inheritance
4. The Agents of the Nāḥiya in the Era of Perplexity
5. The Creation of an Envoy: The Rise of Abū Jaʻfar al-ʻAmrī
6. Rise and Fall: Ibn Rawḥ, Shalmaghānī, and Rise and Collapse of the Envoyship
Conclusion
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